Eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997

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Eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997: 69 .

Type species. Eclecticus eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997, original designation.

Included species. Eclecticus includes 1 species: E. eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997 .

Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncle without posterodistal lobe or spine; accessory flagellum not forming cap covering callynophore. Antenna 2 brush setae (in male). Mandible incisors large, convex; left lacinia mobilis a long slender peg; molar a setose tongue. Maxilla 1 outer plate setal-teeth a well developed 7/4 crown. Maxilla 2 inner plate significantly shorter than outer. Gnathopod 1 simple; coxa large, about as large as coxa 2 with a straight anterior margin; ischium long (length 2 × to 4 × breadth); carpus long (length 2 to 4 × breadth), dactylus with complex spination along anterior margin. Uropod 2 inner ramus with weak constriction. Uropod 3 outer ramus article 2 long. Telson entire .

Remarks. Eclecticus appears to be most similar to Nagada . They differ mainly in the gnathopod 1 dactylus (complex spines in Eclecticus and simple in Nagada). Ichnopus also has the dactylus of gnathopod 1 with complex spination but Ichnopus has a deeply cleft telson (entire in Eclecticus).

Distribution. Gulf of Mexico.